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In the preceding chapter we have shown that plane electromagnetic waves in a dielectric medium are transverse and that the x and the y component of both E and H for a wave propagating in the z direction obey the same wave equation. For the sake of simplicity, we have investigated the propagation of only one component of these fields.
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Rohlfs, K., Wilson, T.L. (1996). Wave Polarization. In: Tools of Radio Astronomy. Astronomy and Astrophysics Library. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-03266-4_3
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